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Hillary Clinton continues to have trouble keeping her answers straight when it comes to the private email server she used as Secretary of State. Despite the fact that Clinton violated federal law by sending classified information through the server, she and her campaign still deny any wrongdoing.
In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Clinton said, “Director Comey said my answers were truthful, and what I’ve said is consistent with what I have told the American people, that there were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain of the emails.”
That comment earned Clinton four Pinocchios from the Washington Post. The ...

In 1986, a law was passed that mandated Medicare-accepting hospitals treat all patients who arrive on their doorsteps, regardless of the ability to pay. Since then, the so-called “freeloader” problem has plagued the American health system. The individual mandate then gained traction as a way to encourage personal responsibility – forcing so-called freeloaders to pay into the health care system they utilize, especially emergency room care.
First popularized by the GOP and The Heritage Foundation two decades ago, the individual mandate became a major part of Obamacare. It is critical to Obamacare remaining intact. But how much do “free-load...

Today, Tea Party Patriots is proud to honor Mark Herr as a Passionate Patriot. Like all of the great activists around the country, Mark is very humble. However, that humbleness does not prevent him from making a significant difference in the battle for individual liberty.
As National Coordinator Jenny Beth Martin has described on several occasions, Mark’s personal sacrifice in the Tea Party has been extraordinary. Mark, who lives in Tennessee, drove 14 hours to Washington, D.C. the weekend that the President’s health care law passed the House. He joined thousands of protesters outside the Capitol. Then, because the hotels in D.C. are expensive, ...

Mark Herr has been involved in the Tea Party Movement since February 2009 as a local organizer within the Midsouth Tea Party of Memphis Tennessee. He saw Rick Santelli’s rant on CNBC and couldn’t sit on the sidelines any longer. Shortly after the 2009 Tax Day Tea Parties’ Mark began seeking out like-minded citizens to “preserve our Constitutional Republic.”
Mark believes the federal government is, “leading our country in a direction counter-intuitive to the principles of liberty & freedom, as envisioned by our founding fathers.” He has dedicated his efforts to organizing voices in Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and has traveled to ...

Democrats already rebelling against President-elect Donald Trump’s promised wall should look at recent history.
In 2006, President George W. Bush signed a proposal into law that ordered the Department of Homeland Security to construct around 700 miles of fencing along the southern border.
The Daily Caller reported:
Two-thirds of the Republican-led House approved the bill, including 64 Democrats, and 80 of 100 senators approved the bill in the Senate. Then Sens. Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton were among the 26 Democrats who approved the bill. Supporters also included Sen. Chuck Schumer, who is set to take over leadership of ...

As you've probably heard from media reports by now, last night Rep. Paul Ryan gave a speech to his colleagues in the Republican Conference meeting that he would accept the job of Speaker of the House as long as he could be a unifying force AND as long as the 3 major factions in the House got behind him. Oh, and there's one other thing. He wants the Republican Conference to change the rules of the House to remove the power of Members to issue a motion to vacate the chair - which you'll recall is the mechanism that Mark Meadows of North Carolina used to ultimately force John Boehner to step down.
So Paul Ryan wants to be Speaker as long as he can ...

This week, Tea Party Patriots Co-Founder Jenny Beth Martin, along with 54 others, signed a document outlining their vision for conservative leadership.
VISION FOR NEW CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP
Republican leaders have a responsibility to better align their party’s policy stances with founding American principles, the U.S. Constitution, and the will and consent of the American people against the threats facing this nation right now. Congressional leaders represent more than merely the internal majority of their respective chambers. They become national leaders of the entire Republican Party and, when in the majority, the citizens of every state. ...

CALENDAR:
The House will come back into session on Monday, with the first votes scheduled for 6:30 PM. The House will stay in session until Thursday, with the last votes expected no later than 3 PM.
The Senate came back into session today at 3 PM to take up consideration of the highway bill. They met for about three hours, then broke until tomorrow afternoon. They’ll stay in session through Friday.
LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House began its week Tuesday, with three bills on the Suspension Calendar. Two passed with heavy majorities in roll call votes, and one passed by voice vote.
On Wednesday, the ...

TEA PARTY PATRIOTS:
Choosing between Big Brother and the Bill of Rights (Op-ed)
“Around 1:30 a.m. Saturday, there was a seismic shift in the U.S. Congress. As the Senate deadlocked over what to do about several expiring provisions of the Patriot Act, it became clear that political momentum had moved away from surveillance and secrecy toward freedom and privacy….”
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0529-abdo-martin-nsa-20150529-story.html
ACLU and Tea Party leaders unite against surveillance
“It takes a travesty most vile to compel two groups that are essentially polar opposites to get together and call for reform. Enter the ...

HEALTHCARE:
Overhead costs exploding under ObamaCare, study finds
“Five years after the passage of ObamaCare, there is one expense that’s still causing sticker shock across the healthcare industry: overhead costs. The administrative costs for healthcare plans are expected to explode by more than a quarter of a trillion dollars over the next decade, according to a new study published by the Health Affairs blog. The $270 billion in new costs, for both private insurance companies and government programs, will be “over and above what would have been expected had the law not been enacted,” one of the authors, David Himmelstein, wrote Wednesday. ...